13th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival

Artistic Director & Co-Producer Adam Miller

Friday, June 22 &Saturday, June 23at the Provincetown Theater7:30 pm

Dion Pratt

The Provincetown Theater is thrilled to partner with the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in producing this year’s annual Provincetown Dance Festival. Now in its 13 th season, the festival will include sevencompanies, totaling some 20 dancers of various and eclectic styles and disciplines for two performances only: Friday, June 22nd and Saturday, June 23 rd at 7:30pm at the Provincetown Theater at 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA. The 2018 line-up includes seven dance companies or solo artists who celebrate the broad landscape of today’s national dance scene. Performances will include classical Indian, tap, ballet, hip-hop and contemporary. New at this year’s festival are artists representing the leading edge in contemporarydance. These includes three works by some of today’s next generation of contemporary dance creators, including a duet by Gisela Creus and Danielle Davidson, a work by Pavement Dance, and a work by the dynamic solo artist, Dion Pratt. Returning this year isaudience favorite CaseClosed!, a youth oriented dance troupe Directed by Sokeo Ros --who mentors and collaborates to realize works that fuse his Cambodian cultural rootswith hip-hop and contemporary dance. Also on board is the new dance company, City

Ballet Boston, who will perform as part of its introduction to the New England dancecommunity. Orlando Hernandes, a dazzling tap artist from Providence, RI joins thefestival for the first time this year, too. And also debuting this year will be the classicalIndian artist from Boston, Mouli Pal. Along with being a supremely accomplishedclassical artist, Pal performs works with a unique contemporary perspective on the greatlegacy of classical Indian dance.

Gisela Creus and Danielle Davidson

This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory of Samuel A. Miller, whofor many decades was one of New England’s most influential forces in dance. Among hismany accomplishments, Miller served as Director of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival andExecutive Director of both the New England Foundation for the Arts and the LowerManhattan Cultural Council. He founded the National Dance Project and the Institute forCuratorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. Miller spent some of nearlyevery summer on the Outer Cape. His vision, commitment, and influence has enrichedour community for many years, and will spirit us into the future for many, many more tocome.

Tickets for the 13th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival are $40 with a reduced ticketprice of $35 for students. Tickets can be purchased onlinewww.provincetowntheater.org, or in person at our new Downtown Box Office, 230Commercial St., daily from 12:00-7:00pm. For more information or questions pleasecontact Sacha Ferrier-Cohen, Business Manager, operations@provincetowntheater.org.